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Numerical Investigation on the Flow, Combustion and Nox Emission Characteristics in a 10 MW Premixed Gas Burner Weibo Chen and Guixiong Liu* Send Orders for Reprints to [email protected] The Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal, 2015, 8, 1-13 1 Open Access Numerical Investigation on the Flow, Combustion and NOx Emission Characteristics in a 10 MW Premixed Gas Burner * Weibo Chen and Guixiong Liu School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China Abstract: The characteristics of the combustion temperature, flow velocity, CO distribution and NOx emissions of a 10 MW gas burner at different primary to secondary air ratios are numerically studied using computational fluid dynamics software Fluent. The results indicate that the primary to secondary air ratio in gas burner determines the combustion quality through influencing some parameters directly, such as the combustion efficiency, combustion intensity, profile and stability of flame as well as emission of NOx. Then two evaluation indexes of combustion quality are summarized after analyzing the flame structure and characteristics of the flow. The detailed results reported in this paper may provide a useful basis for NOx reduction and premixed gas burner design. Finally some proposals are given to choose the optimal primary to secondary air ratio for a gas burner. Keywords: Combustion, computational fluid dynamics, energy, numerical simulation.. 1. INTRODUCTION In this paper, a kind of premixed gas burner produced was taken for instance. Combustion situations inside a boiler Gas burners are a kind of device which jet the flaming furnace at different primary to secondary air ratios were gas mixed with fuel gas and air. They are used necessarily in simulated using CFD software Fluent. The characteristics of heating energy and related industries, for example, boilers, temperature, flow velocity, NOx distribution and flame smelting furnaces and thermal treatment. It controls thermal profiles have been analyzed to study how the primary to load, temperature distribution, thermal efficiency and secondary air ratio affects the combustion quality. The working life of the controlled object because it’s the core of results have important significance for both combustion the whole heating equipment [1-8]. Some experimental quality and burner structure improvement. results indicate that expansive shape of fuel is significantly influenced by the structures and dimensional parameters of fuel injection systems [2]. Fuel jet velocity and air velocity 2. NUMERICAL ANALYSIS PROCEDURE affect the blow-off behavior of Swirl-Stabilized Premixed, 2.1. Flow Fields of Burner Non-Premixed and Spray Flames [5]. When the burners are working, combustion efficiency and intensity of fuel and The structure of premixed gas burner is shown stability of flame have decisive influences on combustion schematically in Fig. (1a). Its air-inlet is a rectangle which quality. And these parameters above depend on the supply has a width of 0.400 m and a length of 0.711 m. The nozzle situation of oxygen in the combustion process [9-12]. The of burner is a circle with a diameter of 0.340 m. In order to unsatisfactory situation of oxygen supply may be due to lack reduce computational domain for computation, air flow field of air or inappropriate proportion of primary air which mixed inside the whole burner has been simulated by CFD software with fuel gas and secondary air participating in combustion. before the combustion simulation. Then appropriate primary So in a certain amount of total air, the primary to secondary to secondary air ratios as well as air velocity would be air ratio has a remarkable influence on the flame chosen as boundary conditions for combustion numerical temperature, flow velocity distribution and NOx emission. simulation according to the simulation results of the air flow Technology of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is field. Calculation models of three opening degrees (15°, 30°, wildly used in the research field of thermal energy such as 45°) of the secondary air door are built for numerical combustion studying [9, 13-15]. Different kinds of models simulation according to the structure of the gas burner. The and methods are utilized to simulate all kinds of value of coefficient of excess air is 1.08. The volume flow characteristics of flames [1, 7, 15]. It is necessary to simulate rate of air actually needed is 2.8866 m3/s when the gas the combustion characteristics of the gas burner since CFD burner is working nearby the rated thermal load. technology can provide more details of the flow field than Fig. (1b-d) shows the situations of the air velocity experiment. distribution with different opening degrees of the secondary air door. The air speed inside the air door decreases as the opening degree of the secondary air door increases. And *Address correspondence to this author at the School of Mechanical & there are some distinctions of velocity distribution. When the Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, opening degree is 15°, air velocity nearby the secondary air Guangzhou, China; Tel: +86-20-87110568; Fax: +86-20-87110568; E-mail: [email protected] door is the highest and it decreases down along the outlet 1876-973X/15 2015 Bentham Open 2 The Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal, 2015, Volume 8 Chen and Liu Fig. (1). Structure of the premixed gas burner (a) and velocity distributions of airflow with different opening degrees of the secondary air door (b) (c) (d). down to a minimum velocity of about 9.18 m/s near the 38.50 m/s. A swirling flow formed via the air flow passing primary air pipe in the lower area of secondary air door. The the swirler is found in the middle of the area between the highest speed (78.10 m/s) appears nearby the secondary air swirler and the nozzle. It continuously absorbs flue gas from door. When the opening degree is 30°, the total velocity the outlet. The velocity distribution of air when it enters into distribution is not the same as the situation of 15°. Air speed combustion chamber is relatively uniform. Result details near air door is relatively low. It increases first and falls a bit show that only primary to secondary air ratios and the toward the outlet. The maximum value of velocity appearing swirler has remarkable influences on the situations of the in the upper area of the combustion chamber is about 54.20 airflow ejected from the burner. This phenomenon should be m/s. It increases obviously after passing through the swirler. considered to simplify the computational domain in When the opening degree is 45°, the total velocity combustion simulation. The primary to secondary air ratios distribution is similar to the situation of 30°, but the average under conditions of different opening degrees of secondary velocity is lower. The highest speed appears in the area near air door can be obtained by calculating the mass flow of air the secondary air door. After passing through the swirler, the passing into the primary pipe and secondary air inlet air velocity increases slowly and achieves to top speed of mechanism respectively. Numerical Investigation on the Flow, Combustion and NOx Emission The Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal, 2015, Volume 8 3 2.2. Model Building and Meshing After the grid-independency of the results was verified using a finer mesh with 18,118,314 cells, which had been Since gas burner is a key component of the combustion indicated by the fact that the results (including the flow system, its most direct effect is to heat the boiler furnace. structure, velocity distribution, temperature iso-contours of When the burner is working, flame is spraying out from the 2000 K) for the case of primary to secondary air ratio combustion chamber into the boiler furnace, so most of the 7.925% using the two different meshes were kept in high flames, high temperature flue gas and NOx pollutants are consistency (shown in Fig. 3), the primary mesh was finally generated in the furnace. Establishing burner-combustion employed for solving all other cases. chamber model to simulate the normal operation of the burner can make the computed result more close to the real situation. The thermal load of premixed gas burner used 2.3. Computational Models throughout this paper is 10 MW. The shape and size of the The combustion simulations were carried out using the furnace model were determined based on the 12 t/h boiler commercial CFD package ANASYS FLUENT. Numerical equipment. In order to facilitate the study of the impact of calculations of the present problem included solutions of the the primary air, secondary air and the fuel flow to the Favre-averaged form of mass, momentum, energy, species, combustion quality, considering the velocity distribution of turbulent kinetic energy k, and its dissipation rate ε transport air inside the burner obtained by simulation in the previous equations available in FLUENT. section simultaneously, the simulation model shown in Fig. (2a) only contains the combustion chamber of burner and In addition, the realizable k−ε model with the standard boiler furnace. Fig. (2b) exhibits the magnification of wall function was employed to predict the turbulence in the combustion chamber of the simplified model. And combustion system. In this paper, the non-premixed model representative primary to secondary air ratios were was used for combustion, a mixture-fraction equation is determined by the characteristics of the air flow field solved instead of equations for individual species, and the simulated. SolidWorks 2012 and ICEM software were used individual species concentration is derived from the to build the model and create triangular unstructured grids predicted mixture fraction concentration under the respectively. Moreover, the body-fitted meshing technique assumption of chemical equilibrium. Interaction between was employed. In the combustion chamber of the burner and turbulence and chemistry is accounted for with the β- region near the burner jet, finer grids were generated, while function probability density function (PDF).
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